# Dunkellin, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killeely, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Dún Coillín.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 411,227 m² (41.12 ha, 101.62 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,901 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killeely, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killeely.md
- Barony: Dunkellin
- Electoral division: Killeely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,929 people lived in 572 households in the Killeely electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19369
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 61922
- Centre: latitude 53.211422, longitude -8.839361 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunkellin, from 33 m² to 85,157 m² (8.52 ha, 21.04 acres); 29 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1932565: 85,157 m² (8.52 ha, 21.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932565.md
- Parcel 2020054: 42,688 m² (4.27 ha, 10.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020054.md
- Parcel 1932664: 35,777 m² (3.58 ha, 8.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932664.md
- Parcel 1932665: 28,628 m² (2.86 ha, 7.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932665.md
- Parcel 2020052: 28,159 m² (2.82 ha, 6.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020052.md
- Parcel 2020055: 26,065 m² (2.61 ha, 6.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020055.md
- Parcel 2020050: 23,744 m² (2.37 ha, 5.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020050.md
- Parcel 2020053: 16,092 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020053.md
- Parcel 2020051: 9,923 m² (0.99 ha, 2.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020051.md
- Parcel 5969358: 9,526 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5969358.md
- Parcel 2746133: 8,409 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2746133.md
- Parcel 1932658: 7,528 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932658.md
- Parcel 2746173: 6,184 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2746173.md
- Parcel 5979212: 5,267 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5979212.md
- Parcel 1932662: 5,157 m² (0.52 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932662.md
- Parcel 2020048: 4,636 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020048.md
- Parcel 1932564: 4,329 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932564.md
- Parcel 4639396: 4,139 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4639396.md
- Parcel 4863717: 4,109 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4863717.md
- Parcel 4633514: 4,026 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4633514.md
- Parcel 1932663: 4,005 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932663.md
- Parcel 4638802: 3,925 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4638802.md
- Parcel 2746039: 3,658 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2746039.md
- Parcel 4461356: 3,358 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4461356.md
- Parcel 1932562: 3,096 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932562.md
- Parcel 2603388: 2,930 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2603388.md
- Parcel 2603391: 2,901 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2603391.md
- Parcel 2746077: 2,825 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2746077.md
- Parcel 2020056: 2,820 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020056.md
- Parcel 1932563: 2,637 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932563.md
- Parcel 1932668: 2,627 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932668.md
- Parcel 1932659: 2,431 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932659.md
- Parcel 2020059: 2,410 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020059.md
- Parcel 1932667: 2,310 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932667.md
- Parcel 2020058: 2,226 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020058.md
- Parcel 5326102: 2,209 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5326102.md
- Parcel 2020049: 2,167 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020049.md
- Parcel 2746187: 2,136 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2746187.md
- Parcel 1932566: 2,133 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932566.md
- Parcel 2020057: 2,104 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020057.md
- Parcel 1932666: 2,070 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932666.md
- Parcel 1932660: 2,070 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932660.md
- Parcel 4636956: 2,004 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4636956.md
- Parcel 1932661: 1,436 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932661.md
- Parcel 6108798: 1,045 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6108798.md
- Parcel 4674858: 580 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4674858.md
- Parcel 2674239: 409 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2674239.md
- Parcel 2746191: 351 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2746191.md
- Parcel 2020047: 284 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020047.md
- Parcel 4461354: 158 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4461354.md
- Parcel 4461355: 98 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4461355.md
- Parcel 2746194: 84 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2746194.md
- Parcel 5097189: 33 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5097189.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Dunkellin in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 12 Jun 2024, Galway County Council 2460710: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for a domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 54.00 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460710/0
- 22 Mar 2023, Galway County Council 2360275: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for a domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 54 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360275/0
- 26 Nov 2021, Galway County Council 212217: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the following: 1) to construct a stand alone gym building ancillary to the use of the house and all associated site works, 2) to alter the side elevation of existing garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 27.89 sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/212217/0
- 2 Feb 2018, Galway County Council 1896: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for a) retention of partially constructed extension/alterations, b) permission to complete partially constructed dwelling house and extensions including waste water treatment and associated services all on extended site to that granted permission under Planning Ref. No. 03/484 and c) permission for domestic garage. Gross floor space of any existing building 240.5 sqm. retention 37.8m2. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/1896/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dunkellin.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA103-120001: Settlement cluster, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA103-120001-. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- GA103-120002: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA103-120002-. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- GA103-120003: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA103-120003-. On a S-facing slope, c. 90m to the S of a castle (GA103-120003-). This heavily overgrown and much-collapsed medieval parish church (16.6m E-W; 6.4m N-S) is constructed of mortared limestone blocks. The S side-wall (H 0.3-4.1m max.) is the best wall, only the lower courses of the other walls (H 0.4-2.6m)survive, though well-executed quoin stones are visible in places. Redington (1912, 68-9) suggested that the church might be of 13th-century date based on the surviving architectural features, which included the remains of ‘three lancet windows’ in the E gable, the sills of which had recently been removed but parts of the jambs of which still survived. She also noted another window at the E end of the N side-wall and part of the W jamb of a doorway with ‘broad chamfers’ at the W end of the same wall. None of these features are now visible. A settlement cluster (GA103-120001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 February 2020
- GA103-120004: Dovecote, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA103-120004-. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- GA103-121: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA103-121----. On a rise in undulating pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 18, no. 96a) as a 'Simple, round, flat-topped' barrow and described as a ‘slightly elliptical’ mound ‘28 feet x 26 feet overall and 3 feet high [8.5m by 7.9m; H 0.9m]’. A number of large boulders were embedded in it, particularly near its base. On inspection in December 1982 the mound was obscured by field-clearance rubble. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 November 2019

Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- House, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 30410331, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA&regno=30410331. Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic storey, built c.1800. Pitched thatched roof having decoratively scolloped ridge, and painted rendered chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings having painted smooth rendered reveals and painted stone sills with replacement timber windows. Square-headed door opening having timber battened half-door. Recent rendered boundary walls.
- Dunkellin Bridge, bridge, 1800–1890, Regional interest, registry number 30410332, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA&regno=30410332. Seven-arch bridge, built c.1820, carrying road over the Dunkellin River. Arches comprise central segmental river arch of c.1870, and three smaller round arches to north, now dry, and three to south. Square-headed opening to north in rebuilt mass concrete wall. Dressed and rubble limestone walls having dressed limestone voussoirs to arches.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Dunkellin, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_720, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_720.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/dunkellin.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/dunkellin.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/dunkellin.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

- Dunkellin, Kilcolgan: 5 sales, https://everytownland.com/galway/dunkellin-kilcolgan.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballynabucky: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballynabucky-60396.md
- Ballynastaig: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballynastaig-60458.md
- Castlegar: https://everytownland.com/galway/castlegar-61099.md
- Killeely Beg: https://everytownland.com/galway/killeely-beg.md
- Rinn: https://everytownland.com/galway/rinn-63697.md
- Roevehagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/roevehagh.md

A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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